# Software Engineer (Backend & distributed systems)

At Permutable, we’re building intelligent systems to automate market analysis using advanced NLP and multi-LLM frameworks. Our goal is to dramatically accelerate how financial information is processed, understood, and acted on, enabling faster, smarter decisions for financial analysts. As a small, ambitious startup, you’ll work directly with our founder and a core team of talented engineers to drive innovation. What You’ll Do Design & Build robust software systems - develop scalable backend services and APIs that power our AI-driven applications. Develop & Optimise data pipelines - implement efficient, reliable systems for ingesting, processing, and serving financial data. Engineer Cloud-Native Solutions on AWS (Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, Redshift, etc.) and automate deployments with GitHub Actions & Pulumi. Collaborate & Brainstorm with our engineering team - we frequently share ideas to innovate, plan strategy and decide on next steps. Own Your Responsibilities - your code will directly shape our core platform and reach production rapidly. Requirements 2-3 years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent). Python expert with strong software engineering fundamentals.

- **Id**: 1282785
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/permutable-software-engineer-backend-distributed-systems>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-24T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T09:28:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 49
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2347
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Market Research, Financial Data & Market Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 2639686
- **Name**: Permutable
- **Domain**: permutable.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/permutable>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 75000
- **Max usd**: 181000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 424

## Technologies

- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Redshift** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Pulumi** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 49

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T03:38:03Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 23
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.506
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 49
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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